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Labour candidates sign Pledge 2030 to combat climate change

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Cllr Lizzi Collinge signing the pledge

Labour councillors and candidates for May’s Lancashire County Council elections are signing a pledge to do everything they can to combat climate change.

The pledge, from Climate Emergency UK and Scientists Warning Europe, asks councillors and candidates to do everything in their power to ensure their local authority sets a target of 2030 or earlier to reach net zero emissions for the whole County or District, develops and implements an ambitious Climate Action Plan, and ensures that tackling the climate and ecological emergency is a top priority for the local authority. The pledge also asks candidates to sign up to learn more about climate change and biodiversity and to lead by example.

Lizzi Collinge, Lancashire Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Climate Change, said

“Every politician and candidate should sign this pledge and act on it. The climate and ecological emergencies are the greatest challenge of our generation of leadership; they threaten both our own wellbeing and the very survival of our species.

“The past year has shown that radical action can be taken quickly, it just needs the political will to do so. We need action at a local, national and international level.

“Lancashire Labour have made the climate and ecological emergencies a top policy priority at county hall, constantly pushing for concrete action.”

Labour’s County Cllr Steve Holgate, a leading environmental campaigner from Chorley and someone not known for mincing his words added, “The issue of climate change has been booted down the road for far too long, the evidence is indisputable, it is the civic duty of anyone who values the lives of our children’s children to act now, even if it is just the smallest of lifestyle changes, act now and become a part of the solution.”

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